Member of Technical Staff, Embedded Assessments
Berkeley, CA$402k - $687.8kEmployeePosted 1mo ago
About the role
METR is seeking embedded researchers and engineers to conduct embedded exercises inside frontier AI labs, assess loss-of-control risks, and develop risk assessments for AI capabilities and mitigations. The role involves long-form embedding in frontier labs, building tooling, writing results, and coordinating future exercises.
Responsibilities
- Embedded in a frontier AI lab for up to several weeks at a time, likely alongside 1-4 other METR staff.
- Practice, develop the general methodology, talk to other researchers, build tooling to improve future exercises, help hire and scale, write up results, plan/coordinate future exercises.
- Relocate temporarily or commit to commuting to frontier labs as needed with METR providing lodging/travel support.
- Support multiple exercises (AI R&D acceleration assessment, compute allocation, monitorability red-teaming, incident investigations, and more).
- Evolve role as METR prototypes this new form of risk assessment.
Qualifications
- Two or more of the following skills (ideal candidate will have most): prompting LLMs and familiarity with relevant research or ability to learn quickly; some security experience; ability to spin up on large codebases quickly; scrappy, creative, independent, self-directed; excellent at loss-of-control threat modeling and breaking down safety cases; strong verbal and written communication and stakeholder management; trustworthy with good reputation.
Skills
Required:Prompting LLMsCodebase familiarityLoss-of-control threat modeling
Nice to have:Security experience
Benefits
- Retirement: 401(k) with 100% match up to 8% of salary
- Life Insurance: Employer-paid basic life insurance at 1x salary
- Time-off and leave: Unlimited PTO and 21-week parental leave
- The office: Catered lunch and dinner daily; in-office gym and shower
- Health: Medical, dental and vision coverage with 99% employee premiums paid; Employer funded HRA; Fertility benefits through Carrot
- Additional stipends: Relocation, Wellness, Commuter, Professional development, Work equipment, Management coaching for managers
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About METR
Model Evaluation & Threat Research
METR (pronounced 'meter') is a research nonprofit that scientifically measures whether and when AI systems might threaten catastrophic harm to society.
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